Gender Stereotypes

Gender stereotypes

Introduction

Gender stereotypes refer to the practice of attributing an individual woman or man, attributes, characteristics or roles only because of their belonging to the social group of women or men. Gender stereotypes are illicit when they result in a violation or violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

These ways of thinking how we should act is what makes us believe that men if they cry are not fulfilling the mandate or stereotype of being strong, brave;Or on the contrary that a girl who plays ball, is already machona and who should play with kitchens or dolls. These two positions turn out to be a weight when demonstrating what a girl or a boy really feels or thinks. We also believe that gender -based stereotypes force women to take care of themselves, and if something happens to them it is because they looked for it.

Developing

It is good to remember the case of the two Argentine girls killed in Montañita in February 2016 and what we can see in this case is that in most news published through television, newspaper or within any other medium, we give ourselvesHe says that, they blame the Argentines because in their past they had suffered from acute stress and anxious depression, in addition to this important fact, there were people who declared that the girls had gone to the house of the culprits voluntarily, since they wereIt is said vulgarly to ‘finger’ and that one of the alleged defendants paid them the taxi in which they mobilized to reach the house where the event passed.

In this regard, in this report, (UNHCD) is spoken of "hostile stereotypes" causing severe effects on the integrity and dignity of women or those considered "benign" stereotypes, such as that women are more tender than men, byTherefore they have the mandatory care of children because mothers are good. For example, if a woman, when divorcing she leaves her children with her father, will be convicted as a bad mother, or not having feelings. Likewise with the man, if he is who stays at home because he has no job, and performs the home care tasks because his wife is the one who works outside, they will tell him that he is a maintenance, useless, tangerine.

The harmful gender stereotypes and unfair gender stereotypes are one of the fundamental causes of discrimination, abuse and violence in multiple areas and can lead to violations of a wide range of human rights. Many times we wonder why despite hardening the laws, of establishing high and cumulative sentences for the authors of femicide, of making efforts to compromise the states and society in the co -responsibility that each one has for a healthy coexistence;This way of relating to degrading methods from whom he holds the power to decide on the life of our girls and boys.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child expresses in its report (UNICEF) ‘there is no cause that deserves the highest priority than the protection and development of the child, on whom the survival, stability and progress of all nations and, offact, of human civilization ‘. However, Ecuador is the third country with the highest percentage of teenage pregnancy between 10 and 19 years, with clear it shows that they have an origin based on sexual abuse in poverty contexts. But in addition to that, the Ecuadorian State, in the budget proforma of 2020 reduced to 0%, the investment for the prevention of teenage pregnancy, which was in the planning of the Ministry of Health during 2019, had 5.6 million.

The rights of childhood according to report (UNICEF) ensures that human rights are stipulated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, with all guarantees to protect the lives of future generations. The jurisprudence that promotes the United Nations, leaves us many initiatives aimed at compromising different states and governments to guarantee the protection of human well -being and especially that of girls and boys.

 This is said (UNICEF) where it is assured that: the Convention on the Rights of the Child, since its approval, in the world, there have been considerable advances in compliance with the rights of childhood to survival, health and education, through the provision of essential goods and services;as well as an increasing recognition of the need to establish a protective environment that defends children of exploitation, ill -treatment and violence.

Faced with this reference, it is identified that in Ecuador, the State would not be complying with these commitments, since eliminating the budget to provide attention to adolescent mothers attending the public health system, dispends on what the Magna Carta establishes.In the same way among the principles of the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO) it is established that: Gender equality is inseparably linked to the right to education for all. Achieving gender equality requires a rights -based approach that ensures that students not only manage to access and complete education cycles, but are equally empowered in and through education.

It is in this context of the promulgation of human rights, that throughout history they are based on conventions such as Incoen, Dakar, Jomtiem and now the 2030 Agenda as that new opportunity that states and society have forTogether from building those violence -based mandates, whose origin is that patriarchal and macho culture that we inherit from a foreign culture that was believed superior to that of our ancestors.

Gender equality in the educational field is a gap more which we must break, according to (Garcia). The third part of the developed countries has achieved gender parity in access to primary education, this progress was made thanks to the millennium objectives. One of the priority areas is sub -Saharan Africa;Within this sector there are many aboutOur society among girls grows more increases the inequality gap, which is why approximately 37 is estimated every day, 37.000 girls are forced to marry, which is more than 15 million a year.

Finally, what can we do to achieve gender equality?, This is one of the questions that many associations, organizations, institutions and people are made daily. We must always take into account that, in order to eliminate these stereotypes, we must learn to teach from early childhood that we are all equal, that we have the same rights, duties and obligations, within the context of the family, community, society, institutionsAnd the national and even global level, we have to create in a favorable environment and it is necessary to have individual defenders and create models that promote the parity of the genres.

conclusion

Within the educational field, the following policies and measures can be effective: representation of women in the media and their proactive role as representatives, which can change the appreciations of society, using social and ICT media;Participation and leadership of women in groups;Correct development of study procedures, giving education from early childhood and at all levels for boys and girls to grow equally;Support women and girls to enter professional fields, dominated by men such as armed forces, aviation, science, engineering, etc.

Decree of regulations that change the way of thinking of society, such as laws against gender violence of all kinds, including sexual harassment and violations. Laws must stipulate a high level of convictions;Share domestic responsibilities between women and men, for example, in the care of children, cook, iron etc.;Gratification of resources necessary for programs that have as its purpose the elimination of gender stereotypes, for example, through awareness and development campaigns of educational plans;Incentives to improve women’s autonomy.